pus

Syn.: matter. A liquid (usually thickish and yellowish white) occurring as the result of inflammation; consisting of emigrated leukocytes, liquid plasma, granular detritus from broken-down cellular structures, and sometimes fibrin flakes. blue p. P. that is colored blue by the Bacillus pyocyaneus. concrete p. Fibro purulent coagula found in a case of infective endocarditis, healthy p. See laudable p. ichorous p. See ichor. laudable p. An old term for a yellowish white, creamy, inodorous p. that was supposed to indicate a normal reparative proce , p. benignum, p. equale. See laudable p. p. in stool, see in appendix, page 907. p. malignum. See ichor. p. maturam. P. supposed to be well matured, p. organisms. Various micrococci and bacilli, such as Staphylococcus aureus and B. pyocyanatus, that produce purulent inflammation, p. spuritum. A puruloid fluid, sanious p. P. tinged with the coloring matter of the blood. serous p. P. consisting chiefly of a thin serum mixed with flakes, watery p. See ichor. [Gr., pyon.]